RIP Minion Collectors :(

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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There should be rewards for people that put in the time and effort to acquire them.

And in this instance...
Time and effort might not get someone the reward.

In fact, according to what I've read in this thread, it's highly unlikely to get the reward even if you spend the time and effort, simply because only 10 people in the entire datacenter can ever obtain it from what we currently know.

[LineageRazor]

Lololol...you thought THAT was being toxic? No..that was simply being realistic to pvp in general in ANY mmo. Me being toxic would amount to something like- "I can't WAIT to see the 1st idiot to cancel their ffxiv sub then go commit suicide because they can't complete a minion collection in view of missing 5 little pixels on a screen and are too lazy to get off their backside and do some actual pvp." THAT..would be being toxic.

Nah, it's just a coward's way to clear the field of folks that might provide some legitimate competition. You see, being thick-skinned or thin-skinned has NOTHING to do with your ability to play your job and win at PvP - but thick-skinned folks know they can use it as a method to get rid of thin-skinned competitors. That's why it has no place in PvP. PvP is struggling as it is to maintain a pool of interested players, and driving folks away with that kind of attitude does no one any favors.

Dedicated PvP games like FPSs and MOBAs, they have no shortage of interested players, so they can get away with weeding out the thin-skinned with smack talk. This game, though, PvP is constantly struggling to maintain more than just a tiny core pool of players. How small does that core have to get before SE decides that it's simply no longer worth investing in?

That kind of attitude is, frankly, one of the driving reasons I never got into online PvP games. I dabbled a bit, but then decided, hey, there are plenty of other fun games out there where I DON'T have to suffer a constant shower of verbal abuse! Maybe I should try those! And so I did. I was content, and the online games did just fine without me.

While it may all be part of the fun in those games, in this game it could well spell the end for support of PvP in general. There's just not nearly enough interest in PvP in this game for folks who genuinely enjoy it to be able to afford driving folks away. "Can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" only works when you actually have enough more than enough chefs to keep the kitchen running.

[Nakanishi]

Love when PvP get's designated as toxic because of the few bad apples, but then people completely forget how toxic PvE can be. New players get shit on in every avenue in this game. First timers to farm content that join farm parties get shit on, kicked out, and then shit on for thinking it was ok to join farm content. Not good enough to beat raid content? Get shit on, then replaced, then get shit on for being so bad and having said players tell their friends about how awful you are diminishing chances of finding another raid geoup. Tons of post of toxicity in PvE on reddit nearly every week, but somehow PvE is not a toxic environment. If anything, PvE is more toxic than PvP's alleged toxicity.

[Sphinx12]

I just love these butthurt casuals topics.... go on try or go mine salty tears of your fellow QQ topic members to Coerthas.... maybe you ll actually learn your class while doing so..... or you ll just serve as a food to Dragoons, Barrage Empyreals, Fell cleaves, Deathflares and Rapid-Fire combos. ))) See you all in the fields of Feast

[Vaeria]

/shrug...tis just the nature of the beast. You can't step on some traintracks then get mad at the train cuz it runs over your foot. If you're unwilling to move, you have to accept what comes with that decision. Thats just how pvp 'in general', not at all limited to ffxiv, is.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Thing that annoys me most regarding minions is the hunting hawk. No one does Diadem and that's the only place you can get it.

[Evilkitten]

Thing that annoys me most regarding minions is the hunting hawk. No one does Diadem and that's the only place you can get it.

Seconded.... so so second.

I actually really like Diadem, it can be fun to to just waste time on if you're not too fussed about reward except for the hunting hawk maybe. Instead all I am seeing is gathering party in pf and not much of my FC is interested in it these days as there is little to gain from it. One day I shall have it... >.<

[Aviars]

I hope it's 10000 wins to get the minion ;3

[worldofneil]

Thank you for this great news! I'm sure it'll be a grindfest, but that's okay!

[Zhexos]

Greetings,

Thank you for your feedback in regard to the Feast Season Three ranking rewards.

We have received a lot of feedback globally in regard to the minion given out as a reward for successfully ranking in the top 10 of Season Three, and after discussing the details of the rewards with the dev. team we have come to a conclusion to make the following changes.

• Add another method to obtain this minion
  By completing a new achievement objective which is planned to be introduced in Patch 3.5, players will be able to obtain the same minion.
  
  
• Add another reward
  The minion will remain as a reward for players who successfully rank in the top 10; however, in addition to this, we will be introducing a new earring item with a unique design.

*The rewards page on the Lodestone has be updated to reflect this change.

We understand that there are players who have participated in Season Three of the Feast for these rewards, therefore, we did not want to take away and change the rewards. Instead we have made it so these players are able to obtain this minion earlier while giving other players a chance at obtaining the same minion by completing a new achievement objective that will be introduced after the conclusion of Season Three.

However, we did not want to discourage players already participating in the Feast for losing out on a reward, so we have decided to include a new earring along with the current reward.

Based on the feedback we received, we’ll make sure to be more careful when deciding which items to use for rewards, especially for items which would be difficult to obtain moving forward.

We thank you for your understanding, and appreciate all your feedback.